automation engineer

service engineer

warehouse coordinator

senior automation engineer

process engineer

Tetra Pak

Designed and Implemented VMware ESX virtual infrastructure in support of their Global Information Management team.  This included helping to design their Change Management environments (Dev, Test, and Staging), and support change control in the development lifecycle.  Working as a Sr. Systems Analyst on the Server & Mail team I Support the domain AD through NetIQ DRA, work with all aspects of the domain; Wins, DNS, DHCP. Monitoring w/ NetIQ, Auditing w/ ESM, Securing w/ Wsus. Backup and Recovery w/ BE 10d and ESXRanger Pro 3.0.  I helped consolidating and virtualizing over 100 servers.  I worked one on one with the other Networking and Security analyst's in protecting all systems and data.

Management was well trained and fair

I worked with a lot of people from different countries.  It was a great blend of people and talent.

The hardest part of the job was knowing what the IT strategy was, and how it tied to business goals and strategy.  Management did share business goals often.  However the IT response seemed to be business as usual.  With 4 Data Centers globally and IT management spread between them, it was a challenge for everyone to work from the same playbook.

The most enjoyable part of the job was the culture.  A great group of people that really tried to make the work place enjoyable.

Mandatory weekends and overtime, No Support, It is basically a Prison camp mentality  where production workers swipe a badge to get into the DUNGEON and the office workers who outnumber production at least 5 to 1 don't have to swipe anything. On top of all that, A couple of the key management positions has created a cut throat production environment where they reward ($25..00) gift cards to downstream processes for spotting defects, But will not back up certain employees from the upstream process if you're not a good old boy or a backstabber...................... TERRIBLE CULTURE !!! 

Not all the Management is bad 2nd shift supervisor is a stand up guy, But the first and third shift managers are terrible along with the process manager. Plant Manager is a puppet and listens to anything the process manager says. HR is not there for you, HR is a Puppet to these people also..

  TOO BAD because there is good people there and they have to deal with a certain few (good old boy) operators stabbing them in the back because they cant do the job.... and they get away with it...

No doubt that A CULTURE CHANGE would help this place operate so much more smoothly and it would completely boost the Quality of the product and benefit the overall production output!

WCM = WE CANT MANAGE!

If you are a hard dedicated worker this is not the company to work for. This company will take advantage of you as much as they can. You’ll start off working eight hour shifts with every Saturday off promised by management, but soon you’ll learn that’s not the truth. You’ll learn that you will be forced to work 12s at least four times a week to have a Saturday off, and that’s only if the lower employees under you don’t call in or get sent home for an ear ache or something minor of that nature. Or you’ll be given the option of working your eight hour shift on your Saturday and then being forced to do week ends Saturday evening. You’ll also notice that the employees that are lower than you that are calling off or doing no call no shows get no types of repercussions for not coming to work, but if you show up one minute late you’ll receive six out of the seven points allowed and one more point you will be terminated. 

I was very excited to get hired at Tetra Pak. I thought I had a great paying, reliable job that I could depend on. I intended to stay with the company through retirement. After a couple of years, when I had increased my living expenses due to having a dependable, great paying job, they announced that they were getting rid of a large number of their employees. They decided to do "company restructuring". They took a full department and relocated the equipment and jobs to one of their other locations, on the other side of the country. This was somehow to save money. I'm not sure if it was cheaper shipping for them, or just lower paying, non union jobs at that location. Anyways, the few years that I spent there turned out to be a total waste of my time. The work wasn't great. A few of my co-worker (who are still there) are weird as fu*k, and hard to tolerate. I now feel that the company is slimy and very unpredictable. I do not recommend this place to anyone.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Some positions allow overtime pay even if salary. 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Factory director is pompous and does not take ownership as the leader of the Denton factory. Departments constantly battle each other. Production demand is high although there is no control on the sales side with their customers. Warehouse is constantly behind as this department was left stagnant for the past 3 years while production was increasing volume. 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
The factory environment has a very low employee moral since the new factory director took over. Individuals see their roles as a pay check rather than an opportunity. 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Working with production to produce orders. Working with sales to meet numbers. Working with logistics to send material to customers.

Like any company, there are good departments and bad departments to work in. At Tetra Pak, this is also the case, even within the IT area. When I started, it was really quite a great place to work. Your technical expertise was acknowledged and appreciated. Unfortunately, in my area, micromanagement has become the norm, along with disregarding SMEs' and other technical experts' assessments and just unquestioningly doing whatever management orders (even if you 'challenge' their ideas, they only playact listening and then still railroad you).
Again, this is only in the area I worked. Unfortunately, I have so far (after several attempts) been unable to successfully transfer to another area and the only way out of the toxic environment will be for me to leave the company it seems.

Tetra Pak has very good benefits and compensation.  However, currently it has become somewhat repetitive and less challenging.  In addition, I currently work from my home in Columbus Ohio.  The company has asked that I move to the Minneapolis area.  I have a son who is a sophomore in high school and I do not wish to do this.

Currently they are undergoing a major re-structuring and this has become somewhat challenging.  In fact, I would say that this has become the hardest part of the job.  

My typical day involves working with systems for processing cheese.  The systems are mostly limited to cheese.  My responsibilities include but are not limited to the sizing and specifying of equipment, creating and modifying P&IDs, managing installations, and handling the process portion of start-ups.

Tetra Pak is an excellent co. Unfortunately management at the Denton, Tx plant is so bad they have destroyed the culture. New plant mgr has not done a days labor in his life . The prod.mgr is a lying snake and besides for  1 supervisor who is a real person and a honest supervisor . the rest of the office (which almost outnumbers production employees) is useless ...Bad( terrible ) Management from top to bottom. Don't waste your time unless you are an A** Kisser and like the good ole boy system. Guaranteed night shift for first 5-10 yrs at least...slave labor with a stopwatch....They have a lunch room only for day shift....vending machines for the rest...BAD...BAD ...BAD...AND MORE BAD!
IT'S TOO BAD,  COULD BE AN  AWESOME PLACE TO WORK . BUT IT ISNT......

Tetra Pak is a worldwide company with many divisions.  Different divisions have growth potential while others are losing ground in the marketplace.

The division I worked for has been losing market share for the last few years and recently lost two very large accounts.  One lost on competitive pricing so it has potential for recovery in four years when bidding goes out again however the second was lost on quality which is almost always a lost forever account.  The decision to let me (and 23 others) go as well as close the California office was a financial one.  It did not matter that I had the longest employment or most diversified experience.

Was hired as a contractor with the impression they wanted to hire on long term employees, after initial contract was up getting hired on as a direct tetrapak employee was what I could expect. Work was as expected, coworkers varied between awesome and horrid- but the job and pay were great. Unfortunately when the initial contract was done they laid me off as well as all the others hired on as contractors due to a slow down in business/revenue. Wondering why I left my job security at a place I’d been at for years for a place advertising they were looking for employees with longevity just to be cut loose six months later. They gave me great referrals and said they’d call me if business picks up, at least I was given two weeks notice so I could find a new job before I became unemployed. 

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Automation engineer 1 salary reported	$76,000 per year
Service engineer 1 salary reported	$67,000 per year
Warehouse coordinator 2 salaries reported	$22.50 per hour
Senior automation engineer 4 salaries reported	$108,913 per year
Process engineer 1 salary reported	$90,000 per year

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